MADAME ROYALE, Marie-Thérèse de FRANCE, dite (1778-1851)

Autograph letter to Théodore Charlet
« G… » [Gorizia, Italy], 15 oct[ober] 1843, 2 p. small in-8°

« My nephew is happily continuing his journey… his health is excellent »

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MADAME ROYALE, Marie-Thérèse de FRANCE, dite (1778-1851)

Autograph letter to Théodore Charlet
« G… » [Gorizia, Italy], 15 oct[ober] 1843, 2 p. small in-8°
Numbered “176” by Madame Royale on top left corner of the first page
Slight browning on second page

Letter of exile in Italy from Madame Royale, giving news to her financier who remained in France

From the Hubert Guerrand-Hermès collection


« J’ai reçu vos 2 lettres des 3 oct. et 5 oct. Je vous remercie de tous vos vœux pour ma petite [sans doute Louise d’Artois, petite fille de Charles X, née un 21 septembre], et je vous écris le même jour. […] Mon neveu [le comte d’Artois] continue heureusement son voyage… sa santé est excellente. Je m’en vais envoyer l’ordre à mon banquier de vous faire payer 10000 francs […] Je veux bien accorder encore 1000 fr à de Bouille pour le tirer d’embarras portant à sa condition… Je vous remercie d’avoir fait toutes mes commissions…[…] Mille choses à votre famille, j’espère que vous êtes tous bien portants… »


Daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France, known as Madame Royale (to distinguish her from the king’s sister-in-law), was the first child of the royal couple, born after more than eight years of marriage. Locked up in the Temple in 1792 with her family, she was the only survivor, exchanged in extremis in 1795 for the French commissioners handed over to the Austrians by Dumouriez. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis of France, Duke of Angoulême, son of the future Charles X. The childless death of Louis XVIII made her and her husband the last Dauphins of France. Forced into exile during the July Revolution in 1830, Madame Royale joined the former King Charles X, and left with her court for Gorizia, a city under Austrian domination. In 1844, she moved with her relatives and her nephew Henri d’Artois, Count of Chambord, to Frohsdorf Castle, located southeast of Vienna where she died on 19 October 1851.

Provenance:
Piasa, 4th May 2010, n°145
Then Hubert Guerrand-Hermès collection